Stephen Gordon probably has the right of this issue here:
This is insane. There is no constitutional right for assholes to foist their assholery on anyone, including politicans.
Or at least, there shouldn't be. https://t.co/CwhIl8zxPT
— Stephen Gordon (@stephenfgordon) October 17, 2018
Anyone can view anyone's tweets. All blocking does is prevent you from doing so *while logged into the blocked account*.
If there's a constitutional right to access a tweet while logged into a particular account, the law is a ass. https://t.co/4lS57XX30U
— Stephen Gordon (@stephenfgordon) October 19, 2018
What concerns me most about the idea of forbidding politicians to block people is that they will simply stop engaging, and their accounts will become – as almost all politicians' accounts are – streams of pablum that are probably run by bots.
This would be a step back.
— Stephen Gordon (@stephenfgordon) October 19, 2018
It occurs to me that this is in fact the goal of the anti-blocking crowd: to lobotomize the accounts of engaged politicians whose views they don't like. https://t.co/w6ufjHUEDJ
— Stephen Gordon (@stephenfgordon) October 19, 2018
